How much revenue did Dust Fleet make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dust Fleet sell?

Q: How many copies did Dust Fleet sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 233 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $58k–$131k before Steam's cut; from 233 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Dust Fleet and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dust Fleet's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–625k

best case 651k (LOCKDOWN Protocol)

Games like Dust Fleet

A typical game among these

≈ 168k–625k copies

≈ $1.6M–$4.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: LOCKDOWN Protocol at ≈ 496k–805k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (6 of 8) and Real Time Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Conversation, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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